Culture Ships
Consider Phlebas
GCU Nervous Energy
GCU Prosthetic Conscience
GSV The Ends Of Invention [ex-Culture]
GSV Eschatologist (temporary name)
GSV Irregular Apocalyse
GSV No More Mr Nice Guy
GSV Determinist
GSV Bora Horza Gobuchul
LSV Profit Margin
ROU Trade Surplus
ROU Revisionist
The Player of Games
Clipper Screw Loose
GCU Flexible Demeanour
GCU Just Read The Instructions
GCU Of Course I Still Love You
GOU Limiting Factor
GSV Cargo Cult
GSV Little Rascal
GSV So Much For Subtlety
GSV Unfortunate Conflict Of Evidence
GSV Youthful Indiscretion
LOU Gunboat Diplomat
dROU Zealot
Superlifter Kiss My Ass
Superlifter Prime Mover
The State of the Art
GSV Bad for Business
GCU Arbitrary
GCU Cantankerous
GCU Only Slightly Bent
GCU I Thought He Was With You
GCU Space Monster
GCU A Series Of Unlikely Explanations
GCU Big Sexy Beast
GCU Never Talk To Strangers
GCU Funny, It Worked Last Time…
GCU Boo!
GCU Ultimate Ship The Second
GCU It'll Be Over By Christmas
chapter & subchapter titles
chapter & subchapter titles
Minority Report
Not Wanted On Voyage
Perfidy
Sacrificial Victim
Stranger Here Myself
Synchronize Your Dogmas
Thank you And Goodnight
The Precise Nature Of The Catastrope
Unwitting Accomplice
Undesirable Alien
Well I Was In The Neighbourhood
You Would If You Really Loved Me
You'll Thank Me Later
Excession
Culture - includes Ulterior and Eccentrics
GCU Different Tan (Mountain Class)
GCU Fate Amenable To Change (River Class)
GCU Gray Area
GCU It's Character Forming
GCU Jaundiced Outlook (Ridge)
GCU Problem Child (Troubadour)
GCU Reasonable Excuse
GCU Recent Convert
GCU Tactical Grace (Escarpment Class)
GCU Unacceptable Behaviour
GCV Steely Glint (Plains)
LOU Attitude Adjuster (Killer)
ROU Killing Time (Torturer Class)
dROU Frank Exchange Of Views (Psychopath Class)
GSV Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The (Plate)
GSV Death and Gravity
GSV Ethics Gradient (Range)
GSV Honest Mistake
GSV Limivourous (Ocean)
GSV No Fixed Abode (Sabbaticaler, ex Equator)
GSV Quietly Confident (Plate)
GSV Sleeper Service (Plate)
GSV Uninvited Guest
GSV Use Psychology
GSV What Is The Answer and Why?
GSV Wisdom Like Silence (Continent)
GSV Yawning Angel (Range)
GSV Zero Gravitas
LSV Misophist
LSV Serious Callers Only (Tundra)
MSV Not Invented Here (Desert)
Zetetic Elench
Appeal To Reason
Break Even
Long View
Peace Makes Plenty
Sober Counsel
Within Reason
Affront
misc
(MBU) Full Refund (Empire Class- Homomdan Convertcraft Vessel)
Superlifter Charitable View (Cliff)
Cruise Ship Just Passing Through
Added Value
I Blame Your Mother
I Blame My Mother
Heavy Messing - ex-culture ship
Use of Weapons
GCU? Just Testing
dROU Xenophobe
GCU Very Little Gravitas Indeed
GSV What Are The Civilian Applications?
GSV Congenital Optimist
GSV Size Isn't Everything
GCU Sweet and Full of Grace
Look to Windward
Culture
ROU Nuisance Value
Superlifter Vulgarian
GSV Sanctioned Parts List
VFP Resistence is Character Forming
GSV Lasting Damage (I, II)
GSV Experiencing a Significant Gravitas Shortfall
Chelgrian
Culture mentioned in conversation
All Through With This Niceness and Negotitation Stuff
Someone Else's Problem
Lacking That Small Match Temperment
GCU Poke It With a Stick
OU I said, Ive got a big stick
Hand Me That Gun, And Ask Me Again
But Who's Counting
Germaine Riposte
We Haven't Met, But You're a Great Fan of Mine
All The Same, I Saw It First
Ravished by the Sheer Implausability of the Last Statement
Zero Credibility
Charming but Irrational
Demented but Determined
May Not Be the Coolest Person Here
Lucid Nonsense
Thorough but… Unreliable
Advanced Case of Chronic Patheticiscm
Another Fine Product form the Nonsense Factory
Conventional Wisdom
In One Ear
Fine till You Came Along
I Blame the Parents
Inappropriate Response
A Momentary Lapse of Sanity
Lapsed Pacifist
Reformed Nice Guy
Pride Comes Before a Fall
Injury Time
Now Look What You Made Me Do
Kiss This Then
The Hydrogen Sonata
Culture
Ue The Mistake Not… (Its full name, which is a private joke amongst other Culture Minds and almost never used, is the Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath)
GOU Questionable Ethics
LOU New Toy
ROU Learned Response
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MSV Pressure Drop
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MSV Passing By And Thought I'd Drop In
GSV Empiricist
ROU Refreshingly Unconcerned With the Vulgar Exigencies of Veracity
ROU Value Judgement
LCU Beats Working
GOU Headcrash
GOU Xenocrat
GSV Contents May Differ
GSV Just the Washing Instruction Chip in Life's Rich Tapestry
GCU Displacement Activity
LCU Anything Legal Considered
Superlifter Zoologist
GCU Warm, Considering
MSV A Fine Disregard for Awkward Facts
3)
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VFP Outstanding Contribution to the Historical Process
VFP Rapid Random Response Unit
(Culture-Zihdren-Remnanter hybrid) (ex-)GCU Smile Tolerantly
5)
GSV Unreliable Witness
6)
LSV You Call This Clean?
Gzilt
5*Gelish-Oplule
7*Uagren
8*Churken
Liseiden
Zihdren-Remanter
Ronte
Iwenick
ship nomenclature
GCU General Contact Unit classes: Delinquent
GOU General Offensive Unit
GSV General System Vehicle
LOU Limited Offensive Unit classes: Hooligan
LSV Limited System Vehicle
MSV Desert Class: 3.5km length (Original GSV concept, now reclassified MSV)
ROU Rapid Offensive Unit classes: Abominator, Torturer, Gangster, Inquisitor, Killer, Psychopath, Thug, Scree (LCU) demilitarized Rapid Offensive Unit
VFP Very Fast Picket